[ In music ] Monarch Changes Name To Wye Oak Monarch has changed its name to Wye Oak. It's a better name, don't you think?
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[ In music ] 2007 Top 10 Baltimore Album Releases Of much more local interest than yesterday's Top 10 Albums for 2007, AGT delivers the Top 10 Baltimore Album Releases for the year.
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[ In music ] Even So - Homecomings & Departures Baltimore trio Even So just released
Homecomings & Departures, their sophomore EP. Featuring smart lyrics and busy percussion, this is a can't miss effort by one of the area's best unsigned bands.
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[ In any given tuesday ] Download The Raveonettes' "Aly Walk With Me" Download a free Raveonettes MP3 from their new album,
Lust Lust Lust.
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[ In blogs ] The Alphabetical Order - I Am Magically Happening! Can you remember the legendary DC hardcore scene that thrived and ruled in DC in the '80s?
The Alphabetical Order might be a bit young to have been there, but they remember the post-hardcore days that brought us bands like Jawbox, and at least one person in the band must have taken some influence from those scenes.
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[ In bands ] Wax & Wane Dual Releases: Bay 7" and Desert 10" Combining fragments of
Beach House (Baltimore locals, as are today's subject, originally),
Wilco, and
Neutral Milk Hotel,
Wax & Wane may start out as droning, a bit bland and non-descript, but soon develop into a delicately magical folk collective with various singers playing various instruments. It's almost strange that a group of performers with an arsenal of stringed instruments can sound so bare and still sound so entertaining.
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[ In any given tuesday ] Kelly Willis - Translated From Love; Free MP3 - "Sweet Little One" Coming off a five-year hiatus (spent raising four children, so not much of a break),
Kelly Willis returns with Translated From Love, a country record with influence of rock, punk (Willis covers Iggy Pop's "Success" on the album), and pop. Translated From Love is full of charm, spark, melancholy, bubble and honky-tonk.
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